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Monday, 15 September 2014

What is time?

What is time?

Wikipedia defines Time as….

Time is a part of
the measuring system used to sequence events, to compare the durations of
events and the intervals between them, and to quantify rates of change such as
the motions of objects. The temporal position of events with respect to the
transitory present is continually changing; future events become present, then
pass further and further into the past.

Time has been a
major subject of religion, philosophy, and science, but defining it in a non-controversial
manner applicable to all fields of study has consistently eluded the greatest
scholars.

Time is used to
define other quantities — such as velocity — so defining time in terms of such
quantities would result in circularity of definition. An operational definition
of time, wherein one says that observing a certain number of repetitions of one
or another standard cyclical event (such as the passage of a free-swinging
pendulum) constitutes one standard unit such as the second, is highly useful in
the conduct of both advanced experiments and everyday affairs of life.

The operational
definition leaves aside the question whether there is something called time,
apart from the counting activity just mentioned, that flows and that can be
measured. Investigations of a single continuum called spacetime bring questions
about space into questions about time, questions that have their roots in the
works of early students of natural philosophy.

Two contrasting
viewpoints on time divide many prominent philosophers. One view is that time is
part of the fundamental structure of the universe, a dimension in which events
occur in sequence. Sir Isaac Newton subscribed to this realist view, and hence
it is sometimes referred to as Newtonian time. Time travel, in this view,
becomes a possibility as other “times” persist like frames of a film strip,
spread out across the time line.

The opposing view
is that time does not refer to any kind of “container” that events and objects
“move through”, nor to any entity that “flows”, but that it is instead part of
a fundamental intellectual structure (together with space and number) within
which humans sequence and compare events. This second view, in the tradition of
Gottfried Leibniz and Immanuel Kant, holds that time is neither an event nor a
thing, and thus is not itself measurable nor can it be traveled.

No wonder time is confusing. The above definitions while
useful don’t actually define time as a thing as the philosophers Gottfried
Leibniz and Immanuel Kant concur. Time it seems is more of an intellectual
construct. A construct we use to measure aspects of our world and not a thing
in and of itself.

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